Ranger Genius wrote:Yes, monkeypoo, you spent the week with some of my very favorite people in the world. Maya, Deezl, Flashback (Erik), Sinnamon, Spaceboy. They won't see this, but I'm crushing them all hard right now. Sounds like you guys had a pretty fabulous event out there.

I met them all. Very nice folks. Can't wait for all the other get-togethers during the year. Very active region.

It was a perfect encounter. A seamless exchange of instant connectivity and awareness. Two people who in a moment really *get* each other.
She inexplicably vanished in the morning. I never saw her again. It was oddly perfect. Beautiful, clear, fun. I've crushed on her ever since with absolutely no way to express it ... which increases the infatuation. But it was the moment more than the girl. A lesson in love, detachment, and engaging each experience as if it may be your last. Absolutely fucking perfect. I'll never forget her.

I crush everyone I ran into that I would've otherwise seen at the MnG. It was a very good year for seeing your lovely faces.

Stuart (By the way those underwear were new, never worn just washed)
Blueniteowl
Sensei
Robbidobbs
The Nipples family, Sister Linda , her husband and brother (though their names escape me at the moment)
Tisha2
Lydia ( the lovely and talented)
Zulegoona
Sandwichman (sorry I missed Emily)

Those are just the few I can recall in my fried state , I hope to stay in better touch.

joel the ornery wrote:and i do believe the left and the stop-the-war crowd do aid the cause of terrorism against the USA and the world.

Anybody done a survey on whether the Left uses more gasoline than the Right?

and dr.placebo for this:

dr.placebo wrote:I have no intention of submitting to religious fascism of any stripe -- Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, or whatever -- they all want to suppress the Other. And every single person is going to be an Other in some context.

I would have an easier time with whole Iraq fiasco if I thought that it was truly in support of freedom. I don't believe that it is, and stating that skepticism does not make me a supporter of terrorists. Nor does standing against suppression at home mean that I side with suppression anywhere else in the world.

Incidentally, in this land of the free you can no longer say "make a dead man come" on TV at the Super Bowl. Even if the tune has been broadcast without censorship for about 25 years.

I am crushing my life ever since I came out here to NC.
I feel like I won some fucking lottery. And I mean, like,
I've been happy in my life before....many, many times...
but this just feels so...(not weird, but...)...it just feels....foreign...
yet not foreign...and if I think too much about it....or if I try to
analyze it all or too deeply...????....then I just get too "verklept"
(but not on a dramatic level, but on a deep "thank you angels ~
and thank you PEOPLE ~ or whoever is out there watching
over me and loving me" kind of level...

Change is hard. Honesty is hard. Trying to undo the bad habits and damage of yourlife time thus far is hard. Sometimes you mess up bigtime.
When you do, it's good to have someone who will call you on your sh*t. And then if that someone will listen to your story about it and "get" what you were trying to do before it when wrong and respond with compassion for your basic humanity, that's even better.

Crushing Sensei for being able to see big and small picture at once.

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri